Event overview
Jeannine Tang - Aesthetic Infrastructures: Contemporary Art and Critical Transgender Politics
Tuesday 23 February
5.00-7.00pm
Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 137
A lecture chaired by Nadja Millner-Larsen
If the work of transgender artists has gained increasing recognition by prominent art institutions in recent years, this recognition has emerged from years of community-based effort, and through ongoing grassroots struggles for complex forms of gendered life. This recognition has also been informed by--and sometimes conducted through--longstanding narrative, curatorial and institutional techniques that interact with other systems of social reproduction. Yet in addition to these forms, rewards and limits of recognition, what other forms, desires and genres of critical transgender politics exist, and how might they dwell immanently within contemporary art’s culture industry? By weaving together social histories of art and transgender studies, this lecture engages work by transgender artists, activists and intellectuals in the U.S., as they improvise modes of life and work that are simultaneously material and imagined, present and impossible, aesthetic and infrastructural.
Jeannine Tang is an art historian and critic who teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Her writing has appeared in venues such as Artforum; Art Journal; Theory, Culture & Society; Afterimage; journal of visual culture; Art India; Broadsheet, among others. Jeannine is currently curating a major exhibition and research project on the New York City galleries American Fine Arts, Co. and Pat Hearn Gallery, to open at CCS Bard in 2017. Recent and forthcoming essays in books have focused on institutional critique and the afterlife of art (Provenance: An Alternate History of Art, Getty Research Institute 2012); feminism and international survey exhibitions (Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgression, Liverpool University Press 2013); spectatorship and indigenous sovereignty (Critical Landscapes, University of California Press, 2014); temporalities after postmodernism (Time/Image, 2014-2015). She has published on the work of Cheo Chai- Hiang, Maria Eichhorn, Simryn Gill, Andrea Geyer, Hans Haacke, Sharon Hayes, Martin Beck, among others. She is at work on two book projects: a study of convergences between contemporary art and the 1970s information age, and a book historicizing the concept of flexibility. General research interests include modern and contemporary art, critical histories and theories of feminism, colonialism, social justice and media.
Organised by the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
The event is free and no booking is required.
All are welcome.
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23 Feb 2016 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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